Pretty hard to be depressed when you’re unconscious.
I had a friend who was in a study for depression with ketamine. They gave him a one-time injection, but he didn’t have any reaction like that, but it apparently lifted his depression for several months.
Bingo.. You are correct.
I’ve been following this since it was first introduced. It’s been a hot topic for presentations at the psychiatric conferences for years.
Modern medicine is more concerned with hiding or suppression of symptoms than resolving them.
It like the gut going through a mid life crisis so they put him in a validation environment to prop him up for an even greater fall, rather than teaching him how to deal with life changes.
I watched a psychiatrist present a new type of therapy and show films of the process at a major medical school. She got really upset when I stated at the end that sending the guy to a prostitute would have been faster and cheaper. She was just doing ego validation work.